Care For Your Personal Data In the Cloud
The recent magnolia-scandal brought back concerns about data backup and service quality from the back of the mind of many users. I know how important these issues are but like most users I blindly trust most new services with my data. Most services offer data export such as Delicious or synchronization such as Gmail provides. [...]
Video: Magnolia Data Loss And Lessons Learnt
In this edition of Citizen Garden podcast, Chris Messina and Larry Halff talk about the Magnolia data loss and how they could have avoided such a disaster. Check out the video here. Citizen Garden Episode 11: Whither Ma.gnolia? from Larry Halff on Vimeo. Chris Messina clearly identifies how Ma.gnolia could have avoided this. Today, with [...]
Magnolia Effect – Should We Trust The Clouds?
Image via CrunchBase Today, the bookmarking service Ma.gnolia announced that they have lost all the data due to data corruption. They may not even be able to recover the data completely, thereby, depriving users of the bookmarks they saved on their service. Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web [...]
